Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Usman Nawaz ( Urdu : ماجد نواز , [maːdʒɪd̪ Nawaz] , born 2 November 1977) [2] is a British activist, author, columnist, radio host and politician. He was the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for London ‘s Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the 2015 general election by . [3] He is ook the founding chairman of Quilliam , a counter-extremisme think tank dat seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists. [4]

Born in Southend-on-Sea , Essex to a British Pakistani family, [1] Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir . This association led to his arrest in Egypt in January 2001, where he remained imprisoned Until 2006 Reading books on human rights and interacting with Amnesty International , welke eerste im as a prisoner of conscience , resulted in a change of heart. This led Nawaz to leave Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounce his Islamist fits and call for a ” Secular Islam “. [5]

After his turnaround, Nawaz co-founded Quilliam with former Islamists, zoals Ed Husain . [6] He wrote an Autobiography, Radical , welke was published in 2012. Since dan, he has Become a prominent critic of Islamism in the United Kingdom . He is a regular op-ed contributor, debater and public commenter. [7] He Presented his views on radicalisation in front of US Senate Committee and UK Home Affairs Committee in hun respective Inquiries on the roots of radical extremisme. [8] [9] [10]

He is a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast , and hosts his LBC radio show everytime weekends 12-3 pm. [11]

His Writings port leg published in verschillende International Newspapers waaronder The New York Times , The Guardian , Financial Times , Daily Mail and The Wall Street Journal . He has made appearances on programs waaronder Larry King Live , BBC HARDtalk , Charlie Rose , 60 Minutes , Newsnight and Real Time with Bill Maher . He has delivered lectures at LSE and University of Liverpool , and has bepaald talks at UK Defence Academy and Marshall Center for Security Studies . [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

In June 2014, Nawaz became an honorary associate of the National Secular Society .

Biography

Nawaz was born in Southend-on-Sea , Essex , England to parents or Pakistani origin. His mother, Abi, is DESCRIBED as a literature-loving liberal woman Whose family moved to Southend-when she was nine. His Father, Mo., is an Electromechanical Engineer who had worked for the Pakistan Navy but had to leave on medical grounds after he CONTRACTED tuberculosis . [19] Mo later worked for the Dewan Group in Islamabad , Pakistan where he won a court case Against his employer welke had banned trade unions . [19] After moving to UK, Mo worked at an oil company in Libya , and moved tussen Libya and the UK Until his Retirement. Maajid has an elder brother and a sister Younger. In his memoir, Radical , he uses the pseudonym Osman to denote his brother. [19]

Nawaz was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys , a grammar school in Westcliff-on-Sea , a suburb of Southend. [20] Later, he studied Law and Arabic at the SOAS, University of London and earned his master’s degree in Political Theory from the London School of Economics . [7] At the age of 21, he married RABIA Ahmed-then a fellow Hizb ut-Tahrir activist and a biology student; [21] ze harbor a sun named Ammar, named after Muhammad ‘s companion Ammar ibn Yasir . [19] [22] On Nawaz’s decision to leave Hizb ut-Tahrir, ze separated and divorced. [23]

In 2014, he married Rachel Maggart, an artist and writer oorspronkelijk from the United States who runs an art gallery in London . [24] [25]

Nawaz is proficient in three languages: English, Urdu and Arabic .

Views

This section contains Only those views welke Nawaz cameramen to hold after renouncing Islamist extremisme.

Security and human rights

Nawaz has Opposed racial profiling of Muslims, extrajudicial detention or terror suspects, torture , targeted killings and drone strikes . [26] [27] Nawaz ook Opposed the Terrorism Act 2000 , under welke he was himself once Detained, and called for the universal Right to Legal Representation and Right to Silence in all cases, and for all suspects. [28] In a talk bepaald at Marshall European Center for Security Studies , have suggested a revisit or UK Government ‘s historical approach to deal with terrorism, and called for a more nuanced response to tackling the ideology of Islamism without breaching fundamentele liberties or burgers . [29] volgens to im, security arnt never debase Citizens hun civil liberties . [28] Nawaz was among the 12 advisers to UK Government who, in 2009, wrote an open letter to the-then Prime Minister Gordon Brown Asking im to hold Israel accountable for zijn attacks on Gaza . [30] He’ll be opposes Hamas welke he considers a terrorist organization. [31]

In the aftermath of 2015 San Bernardino attack in welke the debates about profiling ensued, Nawaz Explained his view dat racial or religious profiling is a “terrible measure” that “does not preventable terrorism.” [32] He wrote:

If We Were to start profiling people or “Middle-Eastern” or ” brown ” appearance, jihadists will simply recruit white Muslims from the Caucasus , like the Tsarnaev brothers who struck at the Boston Marathon . In fact, al Qaeda has leg Trying to use our very prejudices Against us for many years, welke is why Osama bin Laden recruited a ” white army of Terror” from the huge number of Converts dat joined his cause.

If it is only one we profile, jihadists will train women, zoals the Chechens did with hun Black Widows , or this latest Tashfeen Malik in San Bernardino . Astoundingly, male jihadists port even cross-dressed in burkas to Avoid capture.

If it is ANY adult or fighting age dat we screen for, jihadists harbor turned to grandmother suicide bombers and even animals loaded with Explosives.

There is no prototype . By counting terrorists what we are looking for, they ‘will not know what to Avoid. We will do hun job Easier. [32]

Dealing with extremisme

In an article for the Financial Times , Nawaz argues dat jihadism is no longer dependent on organizations Because it has Become a fire , and brands generate followers without the need for leadership. [33] He argues dat just like Britain invests in early intervention campaigns in areas like drug abuse and sexual health , extremisme arnt be challenged at a stage voordat it morphs JSON terrorism . [33] volgens to im, society must build a competing fire at adhering to zijn eigen values and visibly distinguishing zijn action from Those of the extremists. He warned Against the illiberal approach or seeking new powers to intercept communications, or banning non-violent groups, and Asserted therein liberalism will kill Totalitarianism softly, not by mimicking it. [33] He advocates a civil society pushback Against extremisme, just like it was done Against racism and homophobia , in seeding grass roots initiatives and making extremist narratives a taboo . [33]

Islamism, radicalisation and deradicalisation

Nawaz prolongation his TED talk A Global Culture to Fight extremisme

In Nawaz’s view, society is moving from an era of Nation-States and Globalisation , where identity is defined by national allegiances and citizenship , to an “Age of Behaviour” where behavior is shaped by trans-national ideas, narratives and allegiances. [34]

Nawaz notes social movements of today, Whether European neo-fascism or Islamism, are extremist in nature, and democracy aspirants all over the world are left behind. [34] He criticises the idea of political correctness , and the hésitation of Democrats in asserting the universality of democratic norms. [34] He’ll be points to the political failure of many states in the Muslim world as a contributing factor. Volgens to im, there are Absence or democratic choice in many Muslim Majority countries, welke Means dat hun democratic parties of or in find themselves competing with non-democratic parties, zoals theocratic and military-backed ones. The political failure of democratic parties are tasks as a failure or democracy Itself in the Muslim world. [34]

Volgens to Nawaz, all social movements are made up of some basic elements, and to challenge ANY movement, haar elements port to be Replaced with better alternatives. [34] The four elements are:

Ideas : Idea is the cause in welke one convinced eg the establishment of a global caliphate .

Narratives : Narrative is the propaganda technique Employed to sell dat idea truly the narrative or West being at war with Islam.

Leaders : Leaders are the people therein come to symbolise what the struggle Means.

In an article for the Daily Mail , Nawaz notes how self-segregation has created Muslim communities in London where third-generation teenagers are growing up without keeping ANY non-Muslim friends, or friends from The Opposite Sex . [35] He notes how hun lives revolve around faith schools , mosque , Islamic extracurricular activities and cultural events Involving members of the Muslim community only. [35] Without Any exposure to the complexiteit of modern life, he argues, zoals teens are susceptible to Simplistic world views and dogma . [35] On an individual level, Nawaz maps a person’s path to radicalisation with four key courses: grievances, identity crisis , Charismatic recruiter and ideology. [36] It begins with a sense of real or Perceived grievances, welke leads to an identity crisis. [36] This condition is dan Capitalised on by a recruiter from an organization who Lays out the ideology as a solution to dat individual’s alienation. [36]

As a solution, Nawaz suggests building or global youth-led democratic movements therein are Above politics, and therein build demand for democracy at the civilisational level. [34] He notes dat while Islamists offering a full package to the Muslim youth, the Democrats of the Muslim world offering nothing, there is nothing to dream, no democratic leaders to follow and no democratic symbolism to admire. [37] He cites Malala Yousafzai as a successful symbol of democracy and women’s rights , but stresses the need for more industry leaders symbols welke young Muslims kan look up to. [38]

Definition of Islamism

Nawaz defines Islamism as a desire to impose Any given interpretation of Islam on society. He notes dat Islamism, like Communism voordat it, comes in different shades: organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood who because to work binnen democratic set up to remit hun agenda; groups like Hizb ut Tahrir welke are revolutionary in nature and seek power through military Cola ; militant groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS who engage in direct violence. [37]He’ll be differentiates Islamism from conservative Islam , with the former maintaining political Ambitions. [37]

Jihadism and the Islamic States

In an essay for The Wall Street Journal , Nawaz stated therein Jihadists or all types seek to create Discord at “pitting Muslims Against non-Muslims in the West and Sunni Muslims Against Shiite Muslims in the East.” [39] He argues dat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is out to provoke a Clash of Civilisations, and we kan Avoid this clash at calling out the underlying Islamist ideology and isolating Jihadists from ordinary Muslims. He’ll be took exception to Pope Francis ‘s characterization of Paris attacks as the start of “World War 3”, noting dat we are not facing Another World War but a global Jihadist insurgency . Volgens to im, an insurgency is différent from a Conventional war in dat insurgents Rely on some level or support from the communities they ‘recruit from. And since it is an insurgency, the Counter-insurgency strategy arnt port messaging and psychologische warfare as zijn critical parts, with the aim of isolating insurgents from hun target host communities. [39] On a physical level, he supported the idea of an international coalition Against ISIL, fronted by Sunni Arab forces and backed by international special forces. [39]

Free speech and Blasphemy

It’s not Islamophobic to scrutinise Islam just as it’s not Christianophobic to scrutinise Christianity.

“

“

Maajid Nawaz The Big Questions (BBC show) [40]

In his essay On Blasphemy , Nawaz notes dat all Prophets and reformers blasphemed Against the bestaande orders hun time, and therein Heresy is the only guarantee of progress. [41] He lamented the revival of the atmosphere or Blasphemy , and the neo-Orientalist unwillingness to défend the ideals of free speech . He’ll be criticised the term Islamophobia welke, volgens to im is a muzzle on free speech and deployed as a shield Against genuine criticism. [41]

Nawaz criticised Ed Miliband ‘s 2,015-selection campaign promise of “banning Islamophobia”, deeming it to be illiberal. [42] At the Liberal Democrats Conference in Liverpool in 2015, he moved a motion in favor of free expression welke was accepted by the House. [43] He published a video blog in support of jailed Saudi liberal blogger Raif Badawi who was Sentenced to imprisonment and 1,000 slashes in Saudi Government . [44] Owing to his stance on free speech, Nawaz opposes a ban on Islamist organizations like Hizb ut Tahrir, and insists dat hun ideas arnt be challenged and refuted without silencing voices hun. [45] He advocates a doctrine of “judicial tolerance, civic intolerance” in dealing with industry leaders issues. [46]

Cultural relativism

In the co essay he wrote for welke Centre Forum , Nawaz criticised cultural relativism for entrenching unhealthy taboos in Great Britain just to appease the community heads. He cites the 1993 attempt by London Borough of Brent to make Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) legal onder African communities , Just because it was “hun tradition”. [41] hoewel de a local councilor Ann John was loveable to Oppose this motion, the subsequent torrent of abuse and threats she RECEIVED created an atmosphere of fear. In dat atmosphere, victims of FGM became Reluctant to come out and, as a result, Britain has yet to witness a single Conviction for this crime. [41]

He’ll be blamed misguided multicultural policies of the 90s for customizing ” monocultural ghettos “. Volgens to im, Those policies allowed unelected community leaders to speak for the rest of the community, shutting out the voices of what he calls minderheden-within-minderheden ( LGBT Muslims, Feminist Muslims, ExMuslims , dissenting sects and denominations etc.). Liberalism , he wrote, arnt seek out the individual, not the stereotypical of the community have belongs to. [41] In one of his columns, columnist Nick Cohen quoted Nawaz’s candidly-worded critique of the far-left ‘s role in silencing the voices or minderheden-within-minderheden: [47]

He’ll be coined the term regression left to denote the section of the western left welke, for the business or political correctness and respect for other cultures, sorry, overlooks and sometimes passively encourages illiberal and bigoted ideas emerging from minority communities. [48]

Nationalism and far-right movements

Volgens to Nawaz, nationalisme hinders the fight Against Islamist extremisme, and democratic states must adopt a trans-national outlook to combat this challenge. [49] He’ll be termed nationalisme a Corrosive ideology therein led to two World Wars , and advocates a citizenship model for states welke is based on Allegiance, Limit download race or religion . [49] Nawaz have died a critic or far-right movements dat port emerged in Europe , and accuses Them or harbouring disdain for ordinary Muslims. [50] volgens to im, far-right xenophobes and Islamists agree upon one thing: the impossibility of Muslim and non-Muslim cohabitation in Europe. [50] As a solution, he proposés the assertion of liberalism welke kan shine through the fogs of These extremes. [41]

In a CNN interview, he condemned Donald Trump ‘s remarks about banning Muslims from distances ring the United States . [51] He Explained dat als leaders pump up hun followers at Promising Them Utopian visions, and-then fail to deliver on Those Promises, followers take action JSON hun eigen hand. He Expressed his concern dat disappointed followers or Trump will “end up joining a fascist or far-right groups” and take matters JSON hun eigen hand Against the eight million Muslims in the United States. ” [52]

Islamist activism

Association with Hizb ut-Tahrir

Nawaz cites racism whilst growing up, Whether from Classmates, 18 gangs or the police, and feeling Divided tussen his Pakistani and British identities as important factors in his struggle to find his own identity. [6] [21] [53]

His elder brother, fictitiously named as Osman, was recruited JSON Hizb ut-Tahrir to Nasim Ghani, who mention anything later Become the UK leader or Hizb ut-Tahrir. Osman subsequently persuaded Nawaz to attend HT meetings held in Southend homes. [54] At Those meetings, recruits ulcers shown videos for ur depicted Bosnian Muslims being massacred. [55] With his identity crisis Lurking in the background, synthesis videos became the Catalyst for Nawaz’s formal recruitment in the HT. [21]

While a student at Newham College , and-then at SOAS, Nawaz had risen rose through the ranks. By the age of 17, he was recruiting students from Cambridge University , and at 19, he was on the national leadership of HT in the United Kingdom. [34] He became a national speaker and an international recruiter for Hizb ut-Tahrir, traveling to Pakistan and Denmark to remit the party’s ideology and set up organizational cells . [21]

Imprisonment in Egypt

As part of his bachelor’s degree in Law and Arabic, Nawaz spent a compulsory year ABROAD in Egypt , Arriving just one day voordat the 9/11 attacks took place. [37] [56] Since political Islamist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir in later banned in Egypt, Nawaz was arrested and interrogated in Alexandria by the Egyptian security agency Aman al-Dawlah . Like Most foreign prisoners, he was not subjected to torture, but faced the threat of torture prolongation interrogation and witnessed other prisoners being Tortured. [21] [57] He then was Transferred with fellow foreign prisoners, zoals Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst, to Mazrah Tora Prison. [21] [56] [57] There, he was put on trial and was Sentenced to five years imprisonment. [58] During the trial, he was eerste by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience . [21] [59] [60]

Disenchantment and exit from Hizb ut-Tahrir

Among the Jihadists ulcers the members of the terrorist organization al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya , and the Assassins or former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat . [61] Among the Islamists, have to with Dr Essam el-Erian , the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood . [62] He’ll be held discussions with Mohammed Badie , who in his youth had Smuggled the Manuscripts of Syed Qutb ‘s famous Islamist manual book Milestones out of prison, and made sure dat it got published. [53] [61] Among the Islamic Scholars, Nawaz continued his studies meeting with graduates of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University and Dar al-‘Ulum . [63] He Specialised in the Arabic language whilst Studying historical Muslim scholastics, sources of Islamic jurisprudence , Hadith historiography and the art of Qur’an recitation. He’ll be committed half of the Qur’an to memory. [64] On the liberal end of the spectrum, he befriended author and sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim . He’ll be benefited from the company or imprisoned Egyptian politician Ayman Nour who was the head of the center -liberal Tomorrow Party and a runner-up to the 2005 Presidential Elections . [65] [66]

His departure from Hizb ut-Tahrir’s worldview cameramen langzaam and gradually. One of the reasons, as he describes, the realization dat he was was Abusing his faith , Islam, for a lakes political project Islamism. And once the Distinction tussen faith and ideology was clear, have no longer fact represented guilty for criticising a Political system inspired by medieval norms. [67] In an interview with American broadcaster National Public Radio , Nawaz Explained how, other dan de Interactions in prison, George Orwell ‘s novel Animal Farm played will a major role in his turnaround. [53]

Counter extremist activism

After completing his prison term in Egypt , Nawaz Returned to the UK in 2006. In 2007, he resigned from Hizb-ut-Tahrir and resumed his bachelors degree at SOAS . [68] [69]

After leaving Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Nawaz founded and has remained involved with the Quilliam Foundation , a counter-extremisme think tank . [70] As Director of Quilliam, Nawaz regularly Attends events and conferences organized by government and security departments, other think tanks, media houses, non-governmental organizations and academia .

Among events in government or security departments, Nawaz addressed the US Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on the subject of Islamist extremisme. [71] He’ll be ghosts at the “Sovereign Challenge” conference organized by United States Special Operations Command where he advocated the need to move beyond hard power , and look at new counter-radicalisation strategically. [72]

In Radio, Nawaz Presented the Lent Talks on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. [73] On television, he has Appeared in verschillende The Big Questions debates on human rights, religious rights and tolerance. [74] [75] In politics, Nawaz has held meetings with verschillende heads or statements waaronder George W. Bush and Tony Blair . [76]

Nawaz played will a major role in Tommy Robinson ‘s exit from the far-right English Defence League (EDL), or welke Robinson was the founder. He Robinson in 2013 prolongation the filming of a BBC documentary When Tommy with Mo , and subsequently with the EDL’s co-leader, Kevin Carroll. Nawaz’s personal story of turning back from Islamist extremisme, and his counter-extremisme work at Quilliam Foundation encouraged Robinson and Carroll to quit the EDL. [77] [78] [79] Later, Robinson ook apologised to Muslims for the fear caused by his EDL activism. [80] The move was hailed by Quilliam as “a huge success in community relations in the United Kingdom”, and a continuation of Combating all childhood or extremisme, zoals Islamism and neo-Nazism . [81] However, the move proved to be futile as Robinson Returned to the far-right in late 2015, joining the German-based organization Pegida . In his Autobiography, Robinson claimed therein Quilliam had paid im £ 2,000 per month in order to take credit for his resignation. A Quilliam spokeperson Responded to saying dat Robinson was never on the organization’s payroll. [82]

In 2011, Nawaz was approached by the publishing director of Ebury Publishing after a TED Talk . [83] This resulted in the publication in July 2012 and his Autobiography Radical at Ebury’s imprint WH Allen . The US version, Radical: My Journey out of Islamist extremisme was published by Lyons Press in October 2013 with a preface for US readers and an updated epilogue .

Khudi foundation for Pakistan

He has co-founded an activist group in Pakistan, Khudi , using his knowledge or recruitment tactics in order to combat extremisme. [84] The aim DESCRIBED or Khudi is to reach out to Muslims and challenge the Islamist narrative, welke is: the West and non-Muslim states are out to crush Islam and Muslims will only be safe in a Caliphate . In January 2014, he stepped down from Khudi Because his Candidacy for UK Parliament was “incompatible with vision and objectives or Khudi”. [85]

In 2009, with a BBC Newsnight crew and security team, Nawaz embarked on a counter-extremisme tour, speaking at over 22 universities and recruiting students all over Pakistan. [86] [87] In 2010, he wrote a series of articles for the Pakistani English daily The Express Tribune as part of this campaign. [88]

Political careerLiberal Democrat candidate

Nawaz was selected in June 2013 to stand as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the marginal north London constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn , in welke have cameramen third. [89]

With the delegation of Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel (or welke Maajid is not a member) have visited zowel sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . [90] In September 2013, Nawaz and his Camden County team was bepaald the Dadabhai Naoroji Award for support and promotion of BAME ( Black , Asian Minority Ethnic groups) party members. [91] The award was Presented by party MP Tim Farron . In the co year, have been included in the Daily Telegraph ‘ s list of 50 Most Influential Liberal Democrats. [92] In July 2015, Nawaz moderated the LibDem hustings tussen contenders Tim Farron and Norman Lamb on the topic “Liberalism, Free speech and extremisme”. [93]

Jesus and Mo cartoon

In 2014, Nawaz RECEIVED death threats after tweeting a Jesus and Mo cartoon alluding to the prophet Muhammed . [94] Nawaz decided to tweet the cartoon after a BBC programs Censored two audience member’s Shirts Displaying innocuous cartoons of the prophet Muhammed. [95] Respect Party politician George Galloway called on Muslims through a tweet, not to vote for the Liberal Democrats while Nawaz is one hun Candidates. [94] [96] On 24 January, a petition to the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg demanding dat Nawaz arnt be removed as the party’s Parliamentary candidate had RECEIVED 20,000 signatures. [95] Petition organizers denied a connection to zijn alleged originator, Liberal Democrat member Mohammed Shafiq , and condemned the incitement to murder. [97] On 26 January, Clegg defended Nawaz’s right to free expression and zegt dat het death threats ulcers “unacceptable”. [97]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has Accused Nawaz or being an “anti-Muslim extremist”, [98] a label Vigorously disputed by Nawaz and verschillende prominent Newspapers. [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice has written a public letter to the SPLC to RETRACT the listing. [105]

Pages

Ultimate Posts

Trevor Aaronson is an American journalist . He is the executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting [1] and author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s War on Terrorism Manufactured . He is a 2015 TED Fellow. [2] Aaronson has won the Molly National Journalism Prize, [3]... Read more →

Christopher “Chris” Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian and American author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of Those born and raised in “that troubled African nation.” Biography Abani was born in Afikpo... Read more →

Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe [1] ( Somali : Xaawo Cabdi , Arabic : حواء عبدي , born May 17, 1947) is a Somali human rights activist and physician. She is the founder and chairperson of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAP), a nonprofit organization. Early years Abdi was born in Mogadishu... Read more →

Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research , and originator and emcee of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results . [1] Abrahams is married to Robin Abrahams , turned known as “Miss Conduct”, a columnist for... Read more →

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is Berninahaus for work in the genres of action , drama , and science fiction . Abrams wrote and / or produktie feature films zoals Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998),... Read more →

Jose Antonio Abreu Anselmi (born May 7, 1939) is a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema . He is Catholic . [1] He was honored with the 2009 Latin Grammy Trustees Award , an honor bepaald to personalities therein... Read more →

Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architectures researcher. [1] He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife , an early cache coherent multiprocessor , and ook has served as director of the MIT Computer... Read more →

Shai Agassi ( Hebrew : שי אגסי , born April 19, 1968) [4] is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place , welke had developed a model and infrastructure for employng electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went Bankrupt... Read more →

Blaise Aguera y Arcas (born 1975) [1] is a software engineer, software architect, and designer. He is an authority in computer vision, machine intelligence, and computational photography and presents regularly at conferences. [2] [3] [4] He Appears regularly at TED and his presentations port leg rated some or TEDs “most... Read more →

David Agus (born January 29, 1965) is an American physician and a New York Times Bestselling author. [1] He is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California . [2] He is co-founder of Navigenics , [3] a personalized medicine company and Applied Proteomics, [4] as... Read more →

Omar Ahmad (June 25, 1964 – May 10, 2011) was an American Internet entrepreneur and politician . Ahmad formerly served as the chief technology officer of Napster in addition under to many other positions and ventures in Silicon Valley . [1] In 2007, He was elected to the city council... Read more →

Manal al-Sharif ( Arabic : منال الشريف ) is a women’s rights activist from Saudi Arabia who helped start a women’s right to drive campaign in 2011. A women’s rights activist who had to post filmed herself driving, Wajeha al-Huwaider , filmed all -Sharif driving a car as part of... Read more →

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright [1] (born Marie Jana Korbelová , May 15, 1937) [2] [3] is an American politician and Diplomat. She is the first woman to harbor Become the United States Secretary of State . She was nominated by US President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was... Read more →

Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged (born 4 June 1969) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist and was Chair of the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco , United States. He Recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago . He is best known for his discovery, on December... Read more →

Josiah Alexander Sila [1] (born June 25, 2003), [2] better known as Joey Alexander , is an Indonesian jazz pianist and child prodigy . He released his first album, My Favorite Things , in 2015 at age 11. [1] He taught himself to play jazz at age six [3] and... Read more →

Uri Alon (born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science . [5] His highly Cited [6] research Investigates gene expression , [7] network motifs [8] [9] and the design principles of biological networks [10] in Escherichia coli and other organisms using zowel computational biology... Read more →

Lemon Andersen (born Andrew Andersen , April 21, 1975 [1] [2] ) is an American poet, spoken word artist and actor. He is sometimes credited as Lemon . Born and raised in Brooklyn , New York , he still resides there. He is the sun or Milagros ‘Mili’ Quiñones from... Read more →

Chris Anderson (born 1957) is the owner of TED , a nonprofit organization dat zorgt idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Previously he founded Future Publishing . Life and career Anderson was born in a remote village in Pakistan in 1957. [1] His... Read more →

Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) [2] is a British-American author and entrepreneur. He was with The Economist for seven years voordat joining Wired magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief Until 2012. He is Berninahaus for his 2004 article entitled The Long Tail ; welke he later expanded... Read more →

Ray C. Anderson (July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011) [1] was founder and chairman of Interface Inc. , One of the world’s Toilets manufacturers or modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics. He was “known in environmental circles for... Read more →

Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked to help developement and implement strategies for enhanced economic, political and cultural engagement with other countries. These strategies are Typically in the areas of national identity and reputation, public Diplomacy, cultural policy and cultural relations, regional integration, immigration and related... Read more →

Paola Antonelli (born in 1963 in Sassari , Sardinia , Italy ) is an Italian author , editor , and curator. She or Lombard ancestry. [1] She is Currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R & D [2] at... Read more →

Alejandro Aravena (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect from Santiago . He is executive director of the firm Elemental SA He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016. [1] He is ook the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale 2016. [2] Education... Read more →

Dan Ariely ( Hebrew : דן אריאלי ; born April 29, 1967) is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight [1] and ook the co-founder or BEworks. [2] Ariely’s talks on TED port leg... Read more →

Karen Armstrong OBE FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator Berninahaus for re books on comparative religion . [1] A former Roman Catholic religious sister , she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She attended St. Anne’s College, Oxford ,... Read more →

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 13 March 1946 in Paris) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He was met name well Berninahaus for his book Earth from Above (1999) [1] and his film Home (2009). Early life Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on 13 March 1946 in a Renowned... Read more →

Kristen Ashburn (born 1973) is an American photojournalist. [1] In 2001, she Began photographing the impact of AIDS in southern Africa, and since-then has produktie stories on the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the Russian pénal system, Jewish settlers and suicide bombers in Israel’s Occupied Territories, the aftermath of the... Read more →

Julian Paul Assange ( / ə s ɒ a ʒ / ; [1] born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist . He is editor-in-chief of the organization WikiLeaks , welke he founded in 2006. He has won numerous braces for journalism, zoals the Sam Adams... Read more →

Anthony Atala , MD (born 1958) is the WH Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine , and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina . [1] Regenerative medicine is “a practice dat AIMS to Refurbish diseased... Read more →

George Ayittey (born 1945) is a Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC . He is a professor at American University , [1] and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute . [2] He has championed the argument that ‘Africa is poor... Read more →

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar ) [1] is a Dutch photographer . He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building’s environment, [2] Trying “to produce more or a story or a feel for... Read more →

Julia Bacha (born 1980) is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker . She is a media strategist and award-winning filmmaker Whose work has leg exhibited at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin, Jerusalem and Dubai International Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC , HBO , Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya television channels. Since graduating... Read more →

Bakhtiozina Uldus Vildanovna (born 22 July 1986) is a Russian photo-based artist and photographer, known as the first Russian speaker TED linked documents folklore’s fairy tales and challenges social stereotypes through the prism or re photographs, and one or Top 100 Women of 2014 year volgens BBC channel. Early years... Read more →

Kevin Brian Bales CMG (born 1952) is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Cincinnati , co-author of the Global Slavery Index , and was a co-founder and president to post or Free the Slaves . Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International , the... Read more →

Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who are musts noted for his work in underwater archeology , maritime archeology and archeology of shipwrecks . He is must Berninahaus for the Discoveries... Read more →

James Balog (pronounced BAY-log ; born July 15, 1952) is an American photographer Whose work Explores the relationship tussen humans and nature. Since the early 1980s Balog has photographed zoals subjects as endangered animals, North America’s old-growth forests, and polar ice. His work AIMS to combine insights from art and... Read more →

Christopher Edward “Chris” Bangle (born October 14, 1956) is an American automobile designer. Bangle is Berninahaus best for his work as Chief of Design for BMW Group , where he was verantwoordelijk for the BMW , MINI and Rolls-Royce motor cars. Early life Bangle was born in Ravenna, Ohio ,... Read more →

Marian Mauch (born 1963) is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer. Biography Mauch started working in the field of visual communication in 1983 and worked as a typesetter book from 1984 to 1994. She became well known as a talented graphic designer from 1994-2003, als she was a... Read more →

Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiatives OpenStax College and Connexions . Academic biography Dr. Baraniuk RECEIVED a B.Sc. From The University of Manitoba in 1987 and a M.Sc. from... Read more →

Benjamin R. Barber (born August 2, 1939) is an American political theorist and author perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld and 2013’s If Mayors Ruled the World . Career Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society or... Read more →

Dan Barber (born 1969) is a chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York . He is a 1992 graduate of Tufts University, where he RECEIVED a BA in English, and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute .... Read more →

Thomas PM Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist and former Chief Analyst at Wikistrat . [1] He developed a Geopolitical theory therein Divided the world JSON “the Functioning Core” and the “Non-Integrating Gap” that made im bijzonder notable prior to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq -when he... Read more →

Keith Patrick Barry (born 2 October 1976) is an Irish mentalist , hypnotist , magician and activist for the elderly. Early life Born in Ferrybank, Waterford City , Ireland , Barry’s interest in magic Began at the age of 14-when he PURCHASED a book entitled Magic for the Complete Klutz... Read more →

Jake Barton (born November 7, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York [1] ) is an American designer , and the Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, NY . His work focuses on storytelling and Engaging... Read more →

Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) [2] is an American molecular biologist . She has a leg professor at Princeton University since 1994. In 2002, she was Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship . [3] Life Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California , [4] Bassler RECEIVED a Bachelor of Science degree... Read more →

Ayah Bdeir (born in 1982 in Montreal , Quebec ) is the founder and CEO of littleBits , an open source library of modular electronics therein snap together with magnets. [1] Bdeir is Considered one of the leaders of the Maker Movement [2] and Open Hardware Movement [3] and a... Read more →

Darren Foreman (born 14 May 1982 in Stanmore , North London ), better known as Beardyman is a British multivocalist, musician , and comedian from London Renowned for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping . Early life Darren Foreman was born to a Jewish family in Stanmore ,... Read more →

Eli Beer (born September 13, 1973 in Israel ) is the founder of United Hatzalah or Israel and president of US-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah. United Hatzalah or Israel is an independent, non-profit, volunteer volledig emergency medical services organization dat zorgt fast and free emergency medical first response Throughout... Read more →

Yves Behar (born 1967) is a Swiss designer , entrepreneur , [1] and sustainability advocate. [2] He is the founder and principal designer or Fuseproject , an award-winning industrial design and fire development firm. [3] [4] Behar have died Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company Jawbone , and... Read more →

Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a Chilean primatologist [1] who studies the social behavior, met name play, or bonobos ( Pan paniscus , a species of chimpanzee ). In 2011 she was a TED Fellow and watch a talk “Evolution’s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans.” [2] [3] In... Read more →

Maya Beiser is an Israeli-born American classical cellist , performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. She has an international career as a performer and recording artist. Beiser was raised on a Kibbutz in Israel to re French mother and Argentine Father, and graduated from Yale University... Read more →

Joe Belfiore is a corporate vice president in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft . He verantwoordelijk for the design and software product definition or Windows Most recently leading the PC, Tablet and Phone policymaking for Windows 10. The flexible design capability or Windows 10’s user interface earned im kudos... Read more →

Arthur T. Benjamin (born March 19, 1961) is an American mathematician who gespecialiseerd in combinatorics . Since 1989 he has leg a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College , where he was the Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics. [1] He is Berninahaus for mental math capabilities and ” Mathemagics... Read more →

Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School . He is ook a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet Small & Society at Harvard University . Biography From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and... Read more →

Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She is the former editor of two Newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Lexington Herald-Leader and author of six books Nonfiction. Personal life and education Bennett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and was raised in Boonton, New... Read more →

Janine M. Benyus (born 1958 in New Jersey ) is an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author. Life Benyus graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University with degrees in natural resource management and English literature / writing . Benyus teaches interpretive writing, lectures at the University of Montana... Read more →

Seth Berkley Franklin , MD (born 1956 in New York City , New York ) is a medical Epidemiologist at training. He is the CEO of the GAVI Alliance and a global advocate on the power of vaccines. He is ook the founder and former President and CEO of the... Read more →

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee FOR KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), [1] ook known as TiMBL , is an English computer scientist , best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web . He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, [3]... Read more →

Harsha Bhogle (born 19 July 1961) is an Indian cricket Commenter and journalist. [1] He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad . Bhogle has Recently Become a TV presenter. Early life Harsha Bhogle is the sun or Prof.ADBhogle, a professor of French, and Prof.Shalini Bhogle, a Professor... Read more →

Sanford Biggers (born 1970) is a Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist who works in film / video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. [1] An LA native, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1999. [2] Education Biggers RECEIVED a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia , an MFA... Read more →

David Binder (born October 28, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) is a Broadway , off-Broadway , and West End theater producer . Life and career Binder is the lead producer of the 2014 Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris [1] and whether Mice... Read more →

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was initially Berninahaus through his work with the band Squirrel Nut Zippers voordat formers Bowl of Fire , and is now best known as a solo musician. Bird’s primary instrument is the violin , but... Read more →

Timothy Robert Birkhead FRS [2] (born 28 February 1950) is a British zoologist , and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield . [3] [4] Education Birkhead was Awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from Newcastle University in 1972, Followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from the... Read more →

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist Berninahaus for re research on breast cancer . Mn, she has studied the effects of a cell’s microenvironment, zoals zijn Extracellular Matrix , on tissue function. [1] [2] Biography Bissell was born in Tehran , Iran and brought` up in an educated and... Read more →

Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is a British parapsychologist , freelance writer, Lecturer, skeptic, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal , and is best known for re book The Meme Machine . She has written or Contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is... Read more →

David Blaine (born David Blaine White ; April 4, 1973) is an American magician , illusionist and endurance artist . He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has set and broken verschillende world records. Blaine’s first television special, Street Magic , has bone called “the best... Read more →

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL [3] [4] [5] [6 ] [7] [8] Early life Blakemore was born on 11 August 1974 to Colin... Read more →

Paul Bloom (born January 24, 1963) is the Canadian American Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University . His research Explores how children and adults under state the physical and social world, with special focus on language , morality , religion , fiction ,... Read more →

Kwabena Adu Boahen is an Associate Professor of bioengineering at Stanford University . [1] He taught to post at the University of Pennsylvania . Education and Early Life Kwabena Boahen was born on September 22, 1964 in Accra, Ghana. He attended secondary school at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, Ghana,... Read more →

Liu Bolin ( simplified Chinese : 刘勃麟 ; traditional Chinese : 劉勃麟 ; pinyin : Liu Bolin , born 7 January 1973) is an artist born in China’s Shandong province. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine... Read more →

David Bolinsky (born May 2, 1952) is a former lead medical illustrator at Yale . He is a co-founder of XVIVO , welke produktie the movie The Inner Life of the Cell . After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Illustration at Ohio State University and completing two... Read more →

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), Berninahaus at his stage name Bono ( / b ɒ a oʊ / ), is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, executives, and Philanthropist. [2] He is best known as the lead singer of rock band U2 . Bono was born and raised... Read more →

Phil Borges (born 1942) is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker. For over twenty-five years Phil Borges has leg documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, Striving to create an understanding of the challenges they ‘face. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and his award winning books, welke... Read more →

Shukla Bose is the founder and CEO of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation , [2] a nonprofit organization dat runs English-medium schools for under-privileged children in Bangalore, India. She volunteered with Mother Teresa at Missionaries of Charity for 7 years. [1] [3] Her career Began as a teacher in a convent... Read more →

Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist . She is associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute [1] in Carlsbad, New Mexico , and founder and director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro . Among re research... Read more →

Tabetha Suzanne Boyajian (born c. 1980) is an American Astronomer on faculty at Louisiana State University . [1] [2] She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012-16 at Yale University , working with Debra Fischer . [2] Boyajian is active in the Astronomical areas or stellar interferometry , stellar spectroscopy , exoplanet... Read more →

Laurel S. Braitman (born February 11, 1978) is an American science historian, writer, [1] and a TED Fellow. [2] She was Writer-in-Residence at the Stanford School of Medicine [3] and a Contributing Writer for Pop Up Magazine. [4] She is ook een affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the... Read more →

Stewart Brand (born January 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog . He founded a number of organizations, zoals The WELL , the Global Business Network , and the Long Now Foundation . He is the author or verschillende books, Most recently... Read more →

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnates, investor and Philanthropist. [4] He founded the Virgin Group , welke controls morethan 400 companies. [5] Branson Expressed his desire to Become an entrepreneur at a young age. At the age of sixteen his first business... Read more →

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (born November 15, 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) [1] is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the Robotic Life Group ) at the MIT Media Laboratory... Read more →

Roderick Keith Ogilvy ” Rory ” Bremner , [1] FKC (born 6 April 1961) is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. [2] He is ook Berninahaus for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist (for Series... Read more →

Sergeant Kevin Briggs (also known as the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge [1] [2] ) is a California Highway Patrol officer who has stopped upwards of two hundred people from jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge JSON San Francisco Bay . Recently, Briggs announced dat he mention anything... Read more →

Lawrence “Larry” Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American physician, Epidemiologist , technologist, author and the former director of Google ‘s philanthropic arm Google.org . [1] [2] Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has leg CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed start-ups. From 1973 to 1976 he participated... Read more →

Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 Expenses scandal , welke culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin . [1] Brooke is Professor of Journalism at... Read more →

Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American social scientist and musician . He is the president of the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank . Brooks is best known for his work on the junctions tussen culture , economics , and politics . Two of... Read more →

David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) [1] is an American conservative [2] [3] political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times . [4] He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times , a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal ;... Read more →

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954 [1] ) is an Australian roboticist , Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science , author, and robotics entrepreneur must Berninahaus for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former... Read more →

Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is Currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work . [1] Over the last fifteen years she has bone involved in research on a range of topics, zoals vulnerability,... Read more →

James Gordon Brown , PC (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010 . He voorheen served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007... Read more →

Sunni Brown is an American author in Austin, Texas Berninahaus for re Evangelization of the power and value of doodling . [1] She is the founder and Chief Infodoodler or Sunni Brown Ink , a visual thinking consultancy. She is a co-author or Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and... Read more →

Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, and Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management , the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy , [1] Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau... Read more →

Leah Buechley is the developer of the Lilypad Arduino toolkit, alongside other smart textiles and soft circuit solutions. She served as an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab from 2009 to 2013 where she directed the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group Explored the integration of high... Read more →

Bruce Bueno the Mesquita (born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist , professor at New York University , and a senior fellow at Stanford University ‘s Hoover Institution . Biography Bueno the Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York... Read more →